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While Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin were conferring with Jimmy Carter at Camp David, a vignette that might have been lifted from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop was being played out six miles away in the town of Thurmont, Md. (pop. 2,400). Just as a Newsweek reporter sat down to interview ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson about his adventures covering the summit, a Swedish television crew glided up to film the exchange. Within seconds, an Israeli TV unit began filming the Swedes filming the Newsweek reporter interviewing ABC's Donaldson. Then two Egyptian journalists sidled over...
...news. Perhaps a brief word with one of the doctors responsible for the Brown experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging in and out of the hospital's side doors to avoid the press. Or a chat with the equally elusive father. Or, scoop of scoops, a photograph of Lesley Brown peeking from behind her carefully curtained window...
...that clash of rival ideas, of rival systems and ways of life, the deteriorating relationship between the world's two superpowers sank to alarming depths. In the U.S., both houses of Congress overwhehnhigly adopted resolutions deploring the trials and the Soviet denial of human rights. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson urged, in vain, that Secretary of State Vance should post! pone his trip to Geneva for a SALT conference with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (see following story), lest the willingness to continue negotiations be interpreted as "the wrong signal at the wrong time." His fellow Senator Daniel Moynihan...
...voters of California would not have had to use a meat ax on the tax structure if the politicians and bureaucrats had not been using a scoop shovel to distribute tax money...
...just don't feel their days (or nights) are complete unless they get to fry the roofs of their mouths with hot tomato sauce and gooey cheese. So for those fanatics, and even for normal folks who like to challenge their alimentary canals now and then, here's the scoop on pizzerias in the Square and environs...